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In my experience, virtually every time I bake concrete data into identifiers I end up regretting it. This isn’t a case of trying to predict all possible future
by dpark 11mo ago
In my experience, virtually every time I bake concrete data into identifiers I end up regretting it. This isn’t a case of trying to predict all possible future changes. It’s a case of trying to not repeat the exact same mistake again.
- groundzeros2015 11mo agoI don’t disagree with that, I’m disagreeing with this comment that we can’t make protocol or data decisions that might change.
- dpark 11mo agoI misunderstood then. I interpreted your comment to say that you eschew generalization (e.g. uuids) in favor of concrete data (e.g. names, email addresses) for ids in your designs.